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n. Recognition of the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of people and things.

n. A judgment or opinion, especially a favorable one.

n. An expression of gratitude.

n. Awareness or delicate perception, especially of aesthetic qualities or values.

n. A rise in value or price, especially over time.

n. A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

n. Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.

n. A rise in value;—opposed to depreciation.

n. A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

n. Accurate perception; true estimation

n. A rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation.

n. The act of setting a price or money value on real, personal, or mercantile effects.

n. The act of estimating the qualities of things and giving them their due value; clear perception or recognition of the quality or worth of anything; sympathetic understanding.

n. A rising in value; increase of value.

n. In Scots law, the appraisement or valuing of poinded or distrained goods.

n. an increase in price or value

n. a favorable judgment

n. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

n. an expression of gratitude

n. understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

"This appreciation is a subsidiary requirement of tact, such acts of praise or dispraise functioning as expressions of beliefs which imply costs or benefits in terms of recognition of relative status."

step-up    increase    thanks   

the world of appreciation   

valuation    feeling    understanding    advanced   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

admiration    recognition    understanding    sympathy    enjoyment    perception    satisfaction    comprehension    insight    conception